Gift card? Let's hope they don't go bankrupt and pull a Sharper Image.

Why would anyone do this? Assuming you've bought 10 or so HD DVD movies already, it would cost you just as much to replace the movies once you've traded in your player. Personally, I'd hold on to the HD DVD player and just get a second blu-ray unit. Then you've got the added bonus that you'll be able to snatch up cheap HD-DVDs in bargain bins over the next few months.

I would do it.

Circuit City could get some big brownie points here by offering something like this, but I do agree with Serolf. If you already own a number of movies, whats the point?

This deal is only going to be good for those people who, within the last 90 days, got their HD DVD player and didn't spend a lot on movies. Which is probably a lot of new HD DVD buyers, actually. I bet many bought one to use as more of an upconverter and have, at most, a handful of HD DVD discs (like the 5 free they got for buying the player). Those people can take advantage of this and not be out a lot of money. For those who invested a lot on movies, just keep the player and buy a PS3 or wait for BD players to drop in price.

Suckas...they should live with their dumb decision to buy the next beta format...

@Noobs-R-Us: Yeah...I'm gonna live my my dumb decision to pay next to nothing for Ray quality while the whole final spec thing for BluRay gets worked out. I'm also paying less than 1/3 for media. What a dumb decision.

Can I buy a 2nd hd-dvd player tomorrow, then take it back the day after and get a blu-ray player? I've got far too many HD-DVDs to just bail on my current player, but I would like a blu-ray player (i guess)

@Noobs-R-Us: Trolltastic! Nice work!

Hah! As I was walking past the Virgin Megastore in Union Square yesterday on my way to the Circuit City next door to exchange my PS3 (the disc drive randomly decided it no longer reads discs of any type although the drive spins) I saw Virgin had a huge "BUY THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY" sign up. What were they promoting? Digital cameras and a HUGE stack of HD DVD players! WOOOOOOOOO

So one employee says this and you throw it up here? Was he at least a manager of some sort? I'm callin bullshit

@RamV10: it says pay the price difference

Silly question but did the HD-DVD player have to come from Circuit City? I seem to recall that when the electronics store in Japan was doing it, anyone could come in with a HD-DVD player, from anywhere.

where's the proof because i'd do this in a heartbeat for a giftcard. Now i'm using an xbox360 and HD downloads. Not that interested in discs anymore. I'd consider if i got a deal but now i'm in the "fool me once" mode.

But is there any proof of this deal or policy?

I did it and got a PS3. They were more than happy to let me trade it in. I then sold the HD-DVD's on ebay.

Whomever typed that has poor english skills.

is trading in HD DVD players bought into their stores "within 3 months of the announcement," as opposed to their 30-day return policy.

Bought?

So does this mean that its only good for people who purchased a HD DVD player from circuit city in the past 90 days? or is this a 90 day window for anyone who has a HD DVD player to walk in and trade up to a blue ray?

Do you think they would take a 360 HD attatchment?

Wow thats friggin sweet. I was pretty upset about the $300 I spent on a HD-DVD player for my parents (it was a xmas present) but luckily I bought from Circuit City. This really made my day. Blu-Ray, here I come!

I don't even by HD dvd's, I bought my HD dvd player for its upconverting capability for my standard definition dvd's, and it still does this for me, so I'm not upset at all about Toshiba abandoning the format, and would have no intentions of trading my player in!

i work at circuit city and i literally just got off the phone with my manager right now after asking about this seeing if this is something that is going on company wide or just isolated incidents, and it is in fact something happening company wide. however from what my manager said there is no gift card, you get store credit to add the price you paid towards a blu-ray and blu-ray only. hope this clears things up. it also does need to purchased from a circuit city.

Unfortunately, my local Circuit City is enforcing a 90 day window for returns. If you didn't buy it wthin the last 90 days, no exchange. In my case, they already went and got a PS3 with Spiderman 3 for me, and the manager shut me down...